Location: Kalkan - Kas area in Turkey
Nearest Airport:
Dalaman Airport at 160
Kilometres
Nearest Beach:
beach at 100.0
Metres
Car: not necessary
Kalkan is a lovely small hillside town that overlooks a stunning bay. Its quaint, traditional, white-washed houses, shuttered windows and balconies garlanded with brilliant flowers that cascade to the streets below, make it the ultimate in a peaceful holiday town in the Mediterranean region of Turkey (or anywhere in the Med for that matter). Narrow winding streets lined with shops, cafes and restaurants lead down to the charming marina.
Every morning boats busily take tourists to one of the nearby beaches or small bays. As the sun sets it is Kalkan style to meet on the roof terraces for a drink before dinner and enjoy the comings and goings of yachts in the marina or simply enjoy the breathtaking panoramic view of the Mediterranean.
Kalkan was founded about 200 years ago by local Greeks and Turks who named it ‘Kalamaki’. The oldest building in the town is the mosque above the harbor, which originally was a Greek Orthodox Church until the 1920's.